[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#735974: libfarstream-0.1-0: please transition to Farstream 2.0 (Gstreamer 1.0 -based)

[Martin-Éric Racine]

2014-08-12 12:33 GMT+03:00 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org>:
> On 12/08/14 10:17, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> As pointed out by the initial reporter, Farstream 1 is unmaintained.
>> All development has moved to a branch based upon Gstreamer 1.0.
> ...
>> Could you please follow suit and package 2.0?
>
> I assume you mean Farstream 0.2 (the parallel-installable,
> GStreamer-1.0-based version of Farstream that continues to be maintained
> upstream) which has been in Debian since late 2012, in the farstream-0.2
> source package. Please use that in any new code that needs this
> functionality, and convert old code to use it.

Erm... Yes. That one. :)

> At this point src:farstream is only here to support ktp-call-ui and
> Pidgin. We are not going to re-upload src:farstream-0.2 as
> src:farstream; that would just break those packages, for no real benefit.

Noted. Has there been any sign of a Pidgin release that could build using 0.2?

Martin-Éric